Cotton-picker sack



J. W. WATKINS conou PICKE R SACK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, I919.

1,317,532. Patented Sept. 0, 191 9.

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JOSEPH WILLIAM WATKINS, 0F RIDGELY, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-FOURTH TO HENRY W. BARTLEY, ONE-FOURTH TO GORDON GRIFFIN, ONE-TWELFTH TO JOHN E.

HOPKINS, ONE TWELFTH= TO JOHN R. ADAMS, AND

MOORE, ALL OF RIDGELY, TENNESSEE.

ONE-TWELFTI-I TO LUCIAN T.

GOTTON-PIGKER SACK.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

' Continuation in part, filed after grant, of application Serial No. 233,130, filed May 7, 1918. Patent No.

1,300,065, dated April 8, 1919. This application filed. June 30, 1919. Serial No. 307,588.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn WILLIAM WAT- KINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ridgely, in the county of Lake and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Cotton- Picker Sacks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cotton picker sacks, and it is intended to provide a cheap, simple, eflicient and durable sack whichmay vbe conveniently attached to or detached from the person, and which-may be readily reversed back and front when desired. I

Cotton pickers sacks are ordinarily made of such length as to drag on the ground as the cotton picker proceeds'between the rows of cotton in connection with his work. The lower face of the bag near the end is dragged along the surface of the ground, which frequently contains sharp stones, stubble of various kinds, hard clods, and the like, and when the bag is partly or nearly filled with cotton its weight will cause considerable friction between the ground and the bag, and the bag will wear out rapidly.

In order to compensate for this wear, it is desirable to shift the bag front or back from time to time, as after emptying the same and before starting on another trip.

It is especially desirable that the mouth of the bag will automatically be held open, or grin, so that the cotton picker may simply drop the cotton as he picks it into the mouth of the bag without being obliged to spread apart the folds as he gathers each handful of cotton.

In order to accomplish these results, I provide a sack having the opposite sides slit at the top for a suitable distance down, thus forming two flaps and having the edges of both of these flaps reinforced by folding over the edges of the material forming the sack itself and sewing the same down, and also providing reinforcing tabs secured to the flaps near the corners thereof, and then applying to each flap suitable fastening means adapted to co-act with a shoulder strap adapted to go over the shoulders and back of the neck of the wearer. 7

My invention is primarily intended to cover a modification illustrated and described, but not claimed in my patent entitled Improvements in cotton picking sacks, granted April 8, 1919, No. 1,300,065.- It is also intended to show certain improvements on the device shown in the patent aforesaid.

My invention will be more fully understood after reference to the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are indicated by similar reference symbols throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete sack, with one of the flaps in the normal'position for use by the cottom picker.

Fig. 2 shows a central vertical section of the device shown in Fig. 1, with the parts in the same relation as shown in said figure.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a modified form of means for fastening the sack to the person of the cotton picker, the fastening means being shown disconnected; and

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the improved fastening means connected, with parts of the sack and shoulder strap shown in dotted lines. 7

'A represents the body of the sack, which is slit at each side down to the crotch (1, forming two flaps A and A The edges of each of these flaps are turned in as at a and a, and these edges are hemmed or otherwise sewed to the body of thehflaps, and the crotch is reinforced as at a Suitable fastening means are then securedto the reinforced flaps, such, for instance, as the buckles B and tabs C of Figs. 1 and 2, or the clasp D and tabs C of Figs. 3 and 4t.

Goacting with these buckles shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are the straps E- connected to the shoulder strap F. I have shown two of these buckles on each flap, each located near the corner of the flap. The means for securing the buckles to the flap are mounted on the inside of the flap, so as to tend to draw the back flap away from the mouth of the sack, and also to cause the weight of the buckles and the reinforced edge ofthe front flap to drag the same down, automatically holding. the ,mouth of the sack open, as

shoWn in Figs. 1 and 2.

In order to provide a. quick connection of the sack to the shoulder strap, I preferably provide the fastening means shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in which D'represents a clasp having the slotted base cl secured to the tab C, and having the tongue d slotted as at d", and grooved as at 415 The shoulder strap F has attached thereto the tab C to which is connected the T-shaped hook H, having the loop-h swiveled in the folds of the tab 0 and with the shank h and the cross head if having two arms, each grooved as at it". f

In connecting the parts together, the hook H is turned with its loop h at right angles with the loop d of the clasp D, and then the head 7& is passed through the slot (Z in the tongue d, and the hook H is turned through a right angle until the grooves h of the head 7L2 engage-in the grooves (Z to the tongue (Z; the parts when assembled being in the position shown in F 4:. In this position the parts are securely fastened together, and not apt to shake loose, but yet may be quickly disengaged when desired.

Instead of the buckles shown in Figs. 1

' and 2, or the fastening means shown in Figs.

3 and 4, it will be obvious that other suitable fastening means may be adopted, by means of which the bag may be quickly andconveniently attached to or removed from the shoulder .strap, whereby the bag may be shifted through an angle of 180 relative to the shoulder strap when desired, thus causing'the front and back of the bag to be transposedwhenever it is considered desirable by the operator.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A cotton pickers sack provided with longitudinal slots at each side of the head thereof, with 'fiaps integral with the main body of the sack extending transversely of I OOPies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the commissioner of Patents,

scribed.

the sack' between said slots, said flaps having their edges reinforced and provided with fastening devices forattaching same to a suitable supporting strap, said'strap being connectible to either "set of fastening. de-

vices, substantially as. described. V J

2. A cotton pickers sack provided with longitudinal slots at each side of the head thereof, with'flaps integral withthe main body of the sack'extending transversely of the. sack between said slots, said flaps hav- 7 ing their edges reinforced and provided with fastening devices, in combination with a shoulder strap having, fastening devices coacting with the first-mentioned fastening devices for detachably "connecting said shoulder strap to 'either flap of said sack, substantially 3. A' cotton pickers sack provided with longitudinal 'slots'at each side of the head thereof, with"flaps"integral with the main body of the sack extending transversely of thesack between said slots, said fiapshaving their edges folded over and sewed to the main'bodyof the flap, with tabs secured to the inner sides of said nap near the outer corners thereof, and fastening devices sea n f r the P r os e1 cured to said tabs, in combination with a shoulder strap having fastening devices 00'- acting with the first-mentioned fastening devices for detachably connectingsaid shoulder strap to either flap of said sack, substantially as and for the purposes described.

4. A cotton pickers sack provided with longitudinal slots at each side of the head thereof, with flaps integral with the main body of the sack extending transversely of the sack between said slots, said flaps hav'- ing their edges reinforced, with tabs secured to the inner sides of said flaps near the outer corners thereof, and fastening devices se-' cured to said tabs, in combination with a shoulder strap having fastening devices coacting with the first-mentioned fastening devices for detachably connecting said shoulder strap to either flap of said sack, substantially-as and for the purposes described.

JOSEPH .WILLIAM WATKINS. 7

Washington, 1 0. 

